Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent.

The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.

All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

We see the world in terms of our theories.

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Always let your heart sing

Repentance is the highest form of worship that a man can give to God.

You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.

Ah, the pretty whisperers! It was very well When the leaves were thick and green, awhile ago-- Leaves are secret-keepers; but since the last leaf fell There is nothing hidden from the eyes below.

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.